url encoding

[azz_kicker]

I'm putting together a string of variables to spit into a cookie. The string contains characters like ^ and =. When I retrieve the cookie data it encodes those special characters. Such as, =... %2e

Is there a way to override this?

[a_modified_dog]

use unescape -
str = "^ and =. ";
newStr = escape(str)
trace(newStr);

newStr2 = unescape(newStr);
trace(newStr2);